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Cotton, dairy, and sugar stakeholders went before the House Agriculture Committee Wednesday, arguing that they were being harmed by domestic policies in overseas trading rivals and calling for the U.S. to challenge those policies at the World Trade Organization.

The Agriculture Department says its Farm to School Grant Program, created under the Obama administrationðs Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, has increased the number of school meals sold, bolstered consumption of healthier foods in schools, and helped to reduce pl

Google plans to make a major investment in the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project in Northern Kenya, bringing 310 megawatts of clean energy onto Kenyaðs gridðenough to power more than two million households across the country.

Republicans appear to have found their new speaker. In a closed-door meeting, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan agreed to run for the job provided the caucus is united behind him, and he said heðll give his colleagues until the end of the week to do that.

- Serious talks are under way in the Senate on legislation to block states from enforcing GMO labeling laws.

Canadaðs Liberal Party won an unexpected majority in Parliament Monday as voters spurned a decade of Conservative Party rule, at least in part on the Liberal campaign promise to borrow at low

Growers seek new payments for cottonseed under ARC/PLC

Opponents of the Export-Import Bank have directed much of their criticism of the agency at the help it has given corporate giants like Boeing Co. But some much smaller companies are feeling the pinch, too, because of the lapse in the bankðs authorization.

The 2015 World Food Prize ceremony and conference shined a spotlight on women and sustainable agriculture from start to finish.

- USDAðs Inspector General has filed an interim report on its investigation into a New York Times story in January that alleged instances of animal abuse at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) in Clay Center, Nebraska.